Shanghai Chen Shan Botanical Garden (Chenshan) is a large (207 ha) and impressive botanic garden in the outer suburbs of Shanghai.The Shanghai Prefecture Government, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the State Forestry Administration founded Chenshan in April 2010 to build cooperation in its sphere.Chenshan has superb new laboratories and has already established extremely good living plant collections from its region.It has excellent facilities for the visiting public (1 million visits in 2011) and a strong educational operation for school parties.